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This article first appeared on my Green Building Law Update blog. In an effort to promote and expand the emergent body of sustainability and green building law, I blog weekly. The Green Building Law Update blog is intended for the entire environmental industrial complex (not ...

This article first appeared on my Green Building Law Update blog. In an effort to promote and expand the emergent body of sustainability and green building law, I am blogging. The Green Building Law Update blog is intended for the entire environmental industrial complex (not ...

This article first appeared on my Green Building Law Update blog. In an effort to promote and expand the emergent body of sustainability and green building law, I began blogging. The Green Building Law Update blog is intended for the entire environmental industrial complex (not ...

Green marketing presents an enormously valuable strategy for increasing brand value – cutting across all sectors. And the new emphasis on building materials and product makeup in LEED v4® will greatly favor environmentally conscious brands and businesses, far beyond LEED’s influence on the real estate ...

The U.S. Green Building Council announced last week that LEED v4®, the newest version of its green building rating system had been approved by an affirmative vote of more than 86% of those in the consensus body of members. The USGBC all but created the ...

In recent days, Mayor Bloomberg unveiled a resilience plan with 250 action items to increase the resilience of buildings and infrastructure across New York in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Governor O’Malley of Maryland issued an executive order with the single resilience edict that all ...

Last week, the Green Building Advisory Committee recommended to the U.S. General Services Administration that “GSA strongly encourage the use of the LEED standard across the government.” For the good of the environmental industrial complex This is huge, not only because the federal government operates ...